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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

THE first dispatches regarding the burn
ing of the Opera Comique, in the city of
Paris, Wednesday night, were not exag-
gerated. Later information confirms all
of the CHASTITY details of the sad affair as
first repc rted. The loss of life is horrible
to contemplate and much greater than in
Dictated by the earlier cabIegrams. The
number is now placed at 200. What the
exact total OF those who lost their lives in
the terrible catastrophe is will not be
known, probably, until to-day or to-mor
row.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01
POLITICAL "REMINISCENCES.
How Ben Butler Voted 100 Times for Jeff
Davis.
ISan Francisco Examiner. /

lSan Francisco ExarnfnerI
1.-THE famous secession speech of William
l.. Yancey, at Lexington, Ky, remember
very WELL" said District Attorney John
w. Breckenridge TO a reporter night or
two ego,
"He spoke for four hours. and such thrill
ing eloquence never heard. / was very
young at the time, and the excitement OF
the great throng and all combined to make
very vivid impression upon me-"
LAWYER Breckenridge is the son of the
noted Vice-Presi6ent John G. Breckin-
ridge, of Kentucky, who ran on the presi-
Dental ticket in 1860 with General Joe
Lane, of Oregon. G. r. Breckinridge, his
brother, is member OF Congress for the
third time from Arkansas, while another
brother, ]. G. Breckinrlkge, has recently
been appointed Surveyor General of Wash
ington Territory.
my father was elected Vice-President of
the United States" said Mr.. BreckInridge,
"when he was only thhty-four years old.
ut was two months before he was thirty
five" said be, "when he took his seat.
My father was not a candidate at the
Charleston convention for the presidency
The candidates were Davis aud Douglas.
A strange thing that is rarely thought of
now, but which is nevertheless a matter of
history, is that old Ben Butler, as a dele
gate from Massachusetts, stood up aud
voted over 100 times for Jefferson Davis
for The presidency"
District Attorney Breckenridge has been
fourteen years in California, and has prac-
ticed his profession five years. He was a
candidate for Congress last fall in his dis
trict, but withdrew in favor of MIR. Sumner
DE Gays, however, that he could easily
have been elected had he remained can
didate. Mr.. breckenridge, as will be re-
membered, has served in the Legislature of
this State. AT the National Democratic
Convention in Chicago in 1884 he was a
delegate, and in concise speech noml-
mated Judge Allen G. Thurman, OF Ohio
for the presidency.
81 was elected District Attorney last fall"
said Mr.. Breckenridge, by a majority OF
430, the largest any nominee for the position
ever got. Since entered my office, Janu-
airy l, have closed up all the dance houses,
convicted several of the proprietors, and
out of twelve cases of felony have secured
ten convictions. / look with good deal
of pride in what 1 have accomplished in
fhia uavu
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01
wANTED-A NATIONAL AIR.

We don't in any way begrudge Rev. s.
Z. Smith such glory as he may have sue
ceeded in gaining by means of the author
ship of MY Country, IT'S of Thee" and
we are glad that he had right good time
when the ladies of the Grand Army OF the
Republic entertained him out Chicago-way
on Monday night. 1t is also gratifying to
hear that Mr.. Smith is hale and hearty, de-
spite his seventy-nine years, and also, we
may say, despite the fact that he wrote
my Country, IT'S of Thee" fifty years
ago. But men and brethren, let us not
allude to Mr.. Smiths attempt to naturalize
on American soil the British national air as
poetry. 1t is verse, and very feeble verse
at that, and there is not suspicion OF
poetry about it.-Phlladelphia Telegraph.
It is little to the credit of our national
musical spirit or ability that we have no
national air OF our own making, and none
really of adoption. The British anthem,
"God Save the Queen" Tor King, as the
case may be, is no more ours than the
"Marseillaise," or the "Pactant Pour La
Syrie," nor do we claim it, but we use it
temporarily-renti it, we may say, by pay
ing annual tribute to Shakespeare and Mil
ton and the other old fellows-till we can
contrive something for ourselves. The
New York Sun runs comparatively over
the list of airs that have become to be
regarded as American, and shows that
they are all exotics, nothing native, that is
recognized as fit for good society. 1t says:
THE music of the Star spangled Ban
ner' was adapted, with slight alterations,
from melody by DR.. Arne (1710-1T7S),
who is known as the composer of Rule
Britannia Yankee Doodle is also an En-
glish song, dating back to the days Of
Charles IL. when it was known as Lucy
Lockett.' The Red, White and Blue is
sung all over England, and is probably also
of British origin. With Home, Sweet
Home by Sir Henry Bishop, and Amer
lea, by DR.. John Bull, the question arts IS.
have we any national air which Is distinct
lively American"
No, we haven't, unless John Brown"
may be. That is an old campmeeting
tune. and may have grown mp with some of
the old ballad airs of the war OF 1912. after
ward tempered in melody and tune to q
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01
old untstn Parts.

went to see my old haunts when came
to Paris thirteen years ago, and made be-
lieve TO be a painter,-just after 1 was
ruined and before fell in love and took
to marriage and writing. 1t was very
Jolly time. / was as poor of Job and
sketched away most abominably, but
pretty contented; and we used to meet in
each others little rooms and talk about
art and smoke pipes and drink bad bran
dy and water.-That awful habit still re-
msins, but where is art, that dear mistress
whom loved, though in very indolent,
capricious manner, but with real SINGER
ity2-I see her far, very far off. Tilted
her, know it very well; but you see it
was Fate ordained that marriage should
never take place; and forced me to take
on with another lady, two other ladies,
three other ladies; mean the Imuse and
my wife &c, &c.-From unpublished
Letters of Thackeray," in Scribner's Mag
azine tor June.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

KNIGHTsTowN is we'll nigh crazy with
excitement. The gas kicked out of the
harness there the other day and blew the
derrick into smithereens and the metal
castings almost into the next county. The
Sun, one of the newspapers of the town,
in its issue yesterday puts up its headlines
as follows:
Unparalleled-Mt. Vesuvius Outcome
The Bowels of the Earth Give Up Its
Bountiful Supply of Gss-Blowing the I'm
roeDse Casing From the Well to the Height
of 200 Feet-Knocking the Mighty and
Strong Derrick into Frsgments-Thereby
Proving Beyond Shadow OF Doubt That
Knigbtstown Has the Best Gas Well in the
W0rid-The Enormous Pressure of 800
Pounds TO the Square Inch is Shown-Such
Tremendous Power Never Heard of in the
Annals of Gas Well Digging.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

the entire State seems to be rejoicing in a
general revival of business that 90 large a
concern as the Wayne Agricultural Works,
at Richmond, should be la5oring under
financial embarrassment. The statement
made by the company would indicate that
prudent, prompt management might yet
save it from a total failure. Their trial
balance the first of the year showed assets of
1915, 600 and liabilities of $4,000 1t
seems that the concern could not meet a
demand for $4,000 made by an Ohio party.
Suit was brought, and this was followed by
others, until receiver was appointed.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

DR.. DABEEY, who was appointed few
months ago to a place in the Pension
Bureau at Washington, has recently re-
signed that position. When he was ap-
pointed the Republican papers opened up
their mud batteries all along the line,
charging that he had been guard at An
dersonville prison and especially cruel in
his treatment of Union prisoners OF war.
He protested that he was not the man and
that he was never at Andersonville. The
mud smirching finally stopped, but only
because the ammunition gave out. No apol-
ogies for the cruel ISLANDERS were ever made
by the mud-slingers. General Black, the
Commissioner Of Pensions, In accepting DR..
Dabney's resignation, has written letter
to him demonstrating that his retirement
was not made under FIRE OF radical rot.
The letter is as follows:
'Dr. 7. 8. Dabney, Medical Examiner, Pension
Bureau:
"SIR-In transmitting the acceptance of
your resignation ] wish, owing 10 the pecu.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

AN Associated Press dispatch from Terre
Haute announces the mysterious killing
by rifle shot of Mrs. Smith at Cardonia
Wednesday evening. The SentinePs Bra
I'll correspondent, in a special published
elsewhere in this mornings paper, doubt
less refers to the same unhappy event.
There Is no mystery about it from his &C.
count. Two young chaps were recklessly
dence, when she appeared suddenly around
the corner of the house. One of the shots
struck her in the neck, severing the iugu-
lar vein, from which she died instantly.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01
Women in Ohio.


In Ohio a married woman's rights are
co-equal with her husbands.
If she owns separate real estate she can
sell and convey it without consulting her
husband.
If she wants to mortgage or lease her
farm or house and lot, she is at perfect
liberty to dc so.
II she possesses personal property it is
her own, and it will pass to her husband
only by her consent.
The law regarding man and wife has
been completely revolutionized by q mere
act of simplification.
She can buy and sell, sue and be sued in
her own name without any Intervention Of
her husband or next best friend.
If she is in debt when she marries, her
husband is not bound to pay the indebted
ness unless he chooses. The creditor must
collect from the real debtor.
In other words, the rights OF man and
wife are made exactly Identical. What
ever right the man possesses under the
marriage relation, the same right is pos
sesEed by the wife without modification or
abridgement.
According to the law Of Ohio to-day,
husbsnd and wife are not one person, but
| two separate and distinct individuals as
far as their independent right to &C.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

IT should not be forgotten that the Re-
publicans of the last Legislature are re-
sponsible for the fact that the new insane
asylum at Evansville will not be in condi-
ton to receive patients by the first of July,
and thereby relieve the crowded condition
of the hospital near this city. Foulke,
Morton and Rowland, the trefoil of bogus
reform, now engaged in running an annex
to Indiana radicalism, should give this
matter attention when their souls are agon-
izing over the condition of ''the wards of
the Stata.n
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

REFERRING to the proposed nomination
Of Mr.. Thurman for Governor of Ohio by
the Democratic party of that State, the
Cleveland Plain Dealer says: There is
undoubtedly a strong sentiment among
the Democrats of the State in favor of
nominating Allen G. Thurman for Gov
ernor. 1t will not be satisfied that Mr..
Humans expressed disinclination to be
e candidate would lead him to refuse the
nomination if the convention should offer
it to him. 1t is proposed to 60 right on
and nominate Mr.. Thurman, anyway"
There is probably nc man in Ohio that
could be named as the Democratic party's
candidate for Governor of that State that
would produce such general satisfaction
and rejoicing to the Indiana Democracy as
Allen G. Thurman. He is stalwart piece
of party and patriotic timber, well sea-
soned and tried by frequent and varied ex-
periences. He would sweep the State
from lake to river like cyclone. Let him
be nominated.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

Mr.. HEWITT, the Democratic Mayor of
New York, seems to be satisfying all
classes in his administration of the affairs
of the great metropolis. 1t has been the
experience heretofore of New York Mayors,
for the most part, to stir up an astonishing
amount OF antagonism in various quarters
of the city. Mr.. Hewitt has been excep-
tionally fortunate. Harper's Weekly,
which usually looks at affairs from Re-
publican standpoint, although it supported
Mr.. Cleveland for the presidency, says of
the Mayor: Probably no citizen of New
York, whether he voted for Mayor Hewitt
or voted against him, now regrets his cleo
ton. The Mayor has devoted himself to
the duties of his Office with an intelligence
and energy which have produced the most
excellent results. The Mayor is a Demo-
crat, but he was elected by the votes OF cit
liens of all parties. His course is another
illustration of the desirability of totally
separating from politics public duties
which are in no sense political"
Although Mr.. Hewitt undoubtedly re-
ceiyed some Republican votes, yet it must
be remembered that he made the race as
the regular Democratic nominee. The Re-
publicans also made their nomination in
the usual way and backed it up by an en-
ergetic campaign. Their candidate was
Mr.. Roosevelt, and he probably drew out
the full party strengthens full. perhaps, as
it ever expresses itself in other than presi-
Dental years.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

GOVERNOR GRAY has issued a proclama-
ton declaring the laws passed by the Leg
islature of 1887 TO have gone into effect.
But the act of the Governor by no means
condones the violations OF law perpetrated
by Griffin, the nondescript Republican
Secretary of State.-Anderson Democrat.
Is there no way to reach Griffin for his
frequent violations of law and blunders
generally? Give him a check for his entire
term of Office and let him go back to the
Kankakee.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01
THE ONE TROUBLE.

III the iron-bound coercion of the Sails
bury Government, the manifest resistance
of the ''national' sentiment, the brutal
abuse of 'Brien by the 0rangemen Of Can
ada, fail of their logical result in Irish do
mestic independence, it seems now that the
cause will be the petty jeaiousies and con-
tentions of Irish auxiliaries in this coan-
try, whence come the ''sinews of war" The
other day we noted schism in the Clan
na-Gael, which was spreading fast under
the impulse of mutual accusations of
treachery or dishonesty, and now we have
another demonstration OF the same deplor-
able feeling in the refusal of Mr.. O'Brien
to visit the Philadelphia sympa-
thizers with Irish nationalism. tits said to
be the effect of the interference of Presi-
dent Fitzgerald, which they regard as a
personal affront to Mr.. Hugh McCaffrey,
first vice-president of the Land League. and
president of the Philadelphia Municipal
Council. personal spite and rivalry come
in to reinforce the evil influence Of faction
al differences and who shall say what or
where the end shall be? English Liberals
and American allies will weary of
cause whose immediate supporters
and most interested advocates split
into hostile factions, distressing and
denouncing each other. If the friends
of Irish self.government can't trust each
other, how can they expect others to trust
either? II Mr.. Fitzgerald has so strong q
spite at Mr. McCaffrev as tn he willing tn
deprive the Philadelphia sympathizers of
the aid of Mr.. O'Brien, to wreak petty re-
venge on his rival, how is any man of sense
or feeling to give his earnest support to
either, or 10 the cause they are mutually
trying to kill to kill each other with itH
The bane OF zoo years of Irish suffering and
subservience has not lost a bit of its venom
between the invasion of Strongbow and the
oppression OF Salisbury.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

ORTIZ STEIN, whose unsavory career in
Lafayette gave HIM considerable notoriety,
and who was afterward arrested in Cali
fornia charged with forgery, and then con-
fined in Texas jail ever since, has been
released on bail. An FL Paso. Texas, dis
patch says that his mother furnished the
names of the citizens who became his
boudsmeD; that he looks pale and thin
after his long confinement. and that SYM
patty Is expressed for him because he
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

AN Eastern mugwump paper continues
to crow over the fact that so many Repub.
licans are continued in Office at Washing
ton, and the paper referred to relates the
recent experience of General Elmer, who
was one of the Assistant Postmaster Gen.
erals under the Republican administration.
The experience is amusing. He lately had
occasion to visit Washington, and he called
at the Postoffice Department to pay his
respects to his successor. or course he was
asked to go the rounds of the department,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

A CORRESPONDENT at Chrisney, Spencer
County, Indiana, sends Us information
that an old pistol was found recently in
the garden of the Lincoln homestead. 1t
was found far beneath the surface, and it is
supposed that the revolver belonged to Mr..
Lincoln, who sfterward became President.
The Lincoln family settled there when they
came from Kentucky, and when ABE"
was but boy.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

EX-SENATOR FoULKE, the full-blooming
night cereus of alleged civil service reform
in Indiana, took advantage of a slight al
fusion to him in the Sentinel of Saturday
to make little stump speech to type
writer, and then sent it to this Office with
the expectation that it would be published.
It's tone is impudent, vulgar and coarse,
with the odor of the fish market. The mat
ter awaits him in the Sentinel waste-basket.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01
mr. Gladstone and cred Shirt"

saturday Review.
One of the most interesting incidents of
the week has been the visit paid by Mr..
Gladstone to the American Exhibition,
and therein particularly the conversation
held by him with that eminent Sioux
whose name promises to become as familiar
to the public as If he were q professional
beauty. Nothing could be better in its
way than the interview between the two
chiefs. Mr.. Gladstone asked Red Shirt if
he thought that "there was that cordial re-
latioDship between the two great sections
of the English-speaking race-the people of
England and the people of the United
States-tbat there ought to be between
two nations who were so much akin" To
which Red Shirt replied that he did not
know much about that. A more dlsap-
pointing answer to an eminently respecta-
BILE Question we 90 not remember to
have met with since Artemus
Wards unfortunate experience of much
the same kind. He, If we recollect rightly,
addressed somewhat similar inquiry to q
child of nature whom he met in a bar
room, and records, as his companions re-
ply, that 'he said he would take some
hash" The response of Red Shirt was less
evasive than this, but it was almost equally
provoking. Why on earth was he UMPIRE
pared with theory of his own on the sub
ject of Mr.. Gladstone's curiosity? What is
avail are the goodness and grace which
have smiled upon the cradle of a Sioux
chief, il you are not prepared at a mo-
menfs notice to say whether you think
that the exact amount of cordial relation
ship" which ought to subsist between two
kindred peoples does, in fact, subsist be-
tween them? If a Sioux chief can not
answer such an easy question as that Off
hand, he might as well be Board School
boy in the Sixth Standard at once.
As to Red Shirts wIetched excuse for
not giving an opinion-namely that "he
did not know much about the mstter-it
is perhaps the most striking example that
he has yet given of his unacquaintance
with the ways of civilized life. Even the
youngest among us knows better than to
be silerced by such ridiculous scruple as
that. Here at any rate the Christian child
can give the gray barbarian a stone and q
beating. Red Shirt should have had an
opinion of his own on Anglo-Ameriean re-
lations; and having given it he would al
most certainly have been next asked his
opinion on home rule, which, il favorable
to Mr.. Gladstone's views, would also, be-
you'd doubt, have been quoted by him as
fresh proof that the civilized world is on
his side.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

JUDGE ISAAC MOORE died in Boonville
Wednesday night. The Judge was one Of
the most prominent lawyers of Southern
Indiana, and leading Republican, having
been the candidate of the party for secre-
tary OF State in 1882, and a presidential
elector on the Garfield and Arthur ticket
L., 1aQ0
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

THE plucky Irish editor, Mr.. O'Brien,
made bis farewell adieus to Canada in a
speech at Montreal last night, and left inn
mediately for Boston. His recent treat
ment by a series of Canadian mobs was
positive disgrace to the civilization of the
period. We trust that he may be gen erously
welcomed in every American city that
he may decide to honor with his presence.
Long live O'Brien.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01
THE INDIANA STATE sENTINEIa WEDNESDAY.

liar notoriety given your case during the
past year, to say of record that your resigna-
tlon was surprise to me, that il was ten
dered absolutely voluntarily, that knew
of no reason for Its tender, that you leave
this bureau with my best wishes for your
future success and prosperity; that during
the time you have been engaged here you
have won my esteem by your courteous dis
charge OF your duties Very respectfully.
"JoHN @. BLACK, Commissioner"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

PROBABLY the largest executors bonds,
30 far as the money feature is concerned,
ever given in the State were filed yester-
day in New Albany. They called for 81
10000 each, and we're produced by the
four executors of the large DePauw estate.
The name of John w. Ray, Of this city,
appears in the quartette-a Yeritable "Big
Four" The executors entered at once
upon their duties, as their bonds were
promptly approved by the court.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01
A Splendid Gift.
TFliegende Batter

TTIItB DIHItOLsI
q clerk in a clearinghouse celebrated
the twenty fifth anniversary Of his connec-
ton with the finn. Schmul, the prinei-
pal, hands him in the morning a closed
envelope inscribed "In memory OF this
sventfuI day" The clerk gratefully
receives the envelope without opening 1t,
but On O gracious hint from the head of
the firm be breaks the cover and finds-the
photos raph of his master.
"Wsn, what do you think of it9'' in
quired Schmul, with grin.
"It's just like you" was the reply.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01
Fashion in the Sandwich Islands.

san FRANCISCO jewish frogress.l
During your stay in the islands you are
Yisibly Impressed with the advances the
natives have made in our methods of civil
ization. The native ladies don the latest
style bonnets and handle their Mother
Hubbards as if they had been used to it for
ages. The Mother Hubbard is all the
rage here, and, though not the most cor
rect costume, is certainly an improvement
on that period when a pair of earrings aud
a sun-bonnet were all the attire that the
festive Hawaiian maid would revel IN.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

LORD LASDsDowEE probably forgot tina
Mr.. O'Brien was an editor and that hs
would have the last say, and say it FREE
quently. After Mr.. O'Brien returns to his
editorial desk no great interval will elapse
before Lsndsdowne will wish that the devil
would fly away with his Irish estates.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01

THE Governor yesterday appointed ), L.
Carson, of Shelby County, president of the
Board of Trustees of the State benevolent
institutions, in place of DR.. Harrison. Now
the mrsic hepirs